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21 Episodes 2011 - 2012
Episode 0
Fri, Jul 22, 2011
A top ten countdown of the deadliest women from the series so far. Who is the murderess of them all?
Episode 1
Fri, Jul 29, 201144 mins
The intimate thoughts of a twisted mind would be enough to stun a community and horrify the world. But thoughts alone may not be enough to turn someone into a killer. This is a bizarre journey into the world of women who kill for twisted thrills.
Episode 2
Fri, Aug 5, 201143 mins
Neighbors can be a source of friendship and community comfort. But what happens when a neighbor stops watching out for you, and starts watching you. The sinister minds of these women begin to turn sour and they begin to torment their neighbors.
Episode 3
Fri, Aug 12, 201143 mins
Deadly Women are not always the ones you expect. They are not the strangers lurking in the dark, they are a young mother, a supportive wife and a grandmother - all killers. Behind their loving masquerade lies a wake of family horror and pain.
Episode 4
Fri, Aug 19, 201143 mins
Darlie Routier - Jealous of the attention given to her children, a Rowlett, Texas housewife stabbed two of her sons and staged a break-in to get that attention back. She now awaits execution on Texas' death row. Frances Elaine Newton - In 1987, Frances cold-heartedly shot her husband and two young children for their life insurance money. She was executed in September of 2005 by the state of Texas by lethal injection. Susan Diane Eubanks - In San Marcos, California, convinced that all men are liars and cheats, Susan got revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons in order that they came into her life. She was sentenced to death in California.
Episode 5
Fri, Aug 26, 201144 mins
For these monstrous wives, it was only the wedding vow of 'death do us part' that they upheld.
Episode 6
Fri, Sep 2, 201143 mins
In order to kill her father through a hitman, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong coerced an acquaintance to rob a bank for her under the pretense that he was a hostage and had a bomb around his neck, although he was unaware that the bomb was real. Marjorie was sentenced to life without parole and died in prison on April 4, 2017. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's 9-year-old sister over 50 times in Anaheim, California to rob the house and then trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. Rosie is sentenced to death. To inherit her kind neighbor's farm in Nowra, New South Wales, Kim Snibson brutally murdered the couple and got two men to do the work for her. She is serving 32 years with a 24 year non parole period.
Episode 7
Fri, Sep 9, 201143 mins
Amber Cummings, a woman from Belfast, Maine, shot her abusive, white supremacist, child-pornography-watching, Nazi-obsessed husband to save her daughter from being sexually assaulted. Afterward, the authorities discovered that her husband had been planning a terrorist attack at the inauguration of then President-elect Barack Obama, and that Amber might have saved not only her daughter, but also the President. She did not serve time in prison. In 1879, maid and thief Kate Webster murdered her employer, Julia Martha Thomas, and disposed of the body by dismembering and boiling it. She was executed by hanging. Sick of constantly having to care for her terminally ill husband, and greedy to get his life insurance, Wendi Elizabeth Andriano gets impatient waiting for her husband to die and speeds things up by killing him herself. Wendi was sentenced to death.
Episode 8
Fri, Sep 16, 201146 mins
Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrified her husbands and killed them in Baltimore, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Gray was eventually sentenced to 40 years without parole. Elisa McNabney and Sara Dutra had a bond so strong that it left Elisa's husband the third person in his marriage. Money and pure selfishness motivated them to execute Larry. Elisa committed suicide and Sarah has been released from prison. In Melbourne, Australia, Peter Shellard gave his girlfriend Shirley Withers everything including her own boutique, money and a nice house. Shirley repaid him by hiring two drug addicts to murder Peter and stage it to look like a sex game gone wrong. Withers got a 13-year sentence without parole for manslaughter.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 4, 201144 mins
To the outside world these caring mothers present a face of love - a suburban Mom, a caring community member, a housewife - but when the doors close, these deadly women will do whatever it takes to have their own needs met, even destroy their family.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 11, 201143 mins
These women- a grandmother caring for her grandchildren, a young girl in love with a boy, a mother protecting her son - are consumed with intense love. But when that love is threatened, they find it too much to bear and take measures into their own hands.
Episode 11
Fri, Nov 18, 201144 mins
After learning her first husband had an illegitimate child, Raynella Dossett Leath began to control every aspect of her new husband's life in Knoxville, Tennessee, including his death when she was overcome by greed. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret was revealed. Leath was sentenced to 51 years to life in prison, but was released in 2017. In Las Vegas, Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol, guns and sleeping with other women and decided to shoot and dismember him before going on the run. She soon discovered that her efforts were for naught, as her husband had changed his will and completely disinherited her. Rudin was eventually caught and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years. She was released on January 10, 2020. In Millsboro, Delaware, Linda Lou Charbonneau got sick of her first husband and married his nephew; when neither man's financial status met Linda's satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them. Linda was sentenced to 20 years.
Episode 12
Fri, Nov 25, 201143 mins
Sarah Mitchell of Oakland, California lived rent-free in the house of her hard-working, well-to-do older sister Stevie. When Stevie cut her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolical by killing, dismembering and re-emerging from a fire as her sister. Sarah was sentence to life without parole. Two twins, wholesome schoolteacher Peggy Lowe and flashy, audacious nurse Betty Wilson found themselves caught in a web of deception and mystery after a man that they both met murdered Betty's ailing husband Jack ( a well-loved eye doctor whom Betty married for his money) and claimed that they both made him to it. The truth was one that shook Huntsville, Alabama to its core. Despite Peggy believing that her sister was innocent, Betty was sentence to life in prison. Kathleen Worrall had a hormonal disease, but the medicine caused weight gain, so she stopped taking it. As a result, the tiniest things set her off and one mistake led to her stabbing her younger sister Susan. Kathleen died in prison on August 1, 2010.
Episode 13
43 mins
In 1760s London, respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abused her servants and ruthlessly tortured, beat and starved them. It was not until one girl was found dying from numerous open sores that this women was finally unmasked and she was branded a monster for centuries to come. She was sentenced to death by hanging. Kerry Lyn Dalton discovered that, while she was in jail, her flatmate, Irene May, had sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women took. Kerry, high on meth, responded by torturing Irene to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Kerry was sentenced to death. In turn-of-the-century Australia, Martha Rendell moved in with her lover, who leaves his wife for her but keeps their kids. Martha seemed to have jumped out of a Grimm's fairy tale as a wicked stepmother - she made the children ill and pretended to swab their throats with medicine, which was really hydrochloric acid. After Martha killed three of her stepchildren, a fourth escaped and exposed Martha as a heartless sadist who got sexual pleasure from their suffering. She was executed by hanging.
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 9, 201144 mins
Susan Wright was supposedly abused and controlled by her husband, Jeff, who spent days having affairs with strippers and using drugs while Susan raised their two young kids in Houston. Susan did not believe in divorce and felt the only way out was murder. Susan was sentenced to 20 years in prison and was released on December 30, 2020. In Memphis, Tennessee, Alice Mitchell had plans of moving to Boston with her lover Freda Ward and living as a married couple disguised as a man, but when Freda's family stopped those plans dead in their tracks and forbade her to see Alice, an obsession began leading Alice to destroy the one that she cherished the most. Alice was declared mentally incompetent and was committed to an asylum, where she died. Larissa Schuster from Clovis, California was many things - a biochemist, an over-achiever and a bully. She carried on affairs behind her husband's back and when he left the family home, instead of continuing her affairs, she permanently dissolved their marriage by dissolving Tim's body in a blue barrel of acid in the garage. Larissa and her accomplice were sentenced to life without parole.
Episode 15
Fri, Dec 16, 201144 mins
Within hours of meeting in juvenile detention, troubled teens Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began to plan a life together and step one in the plan included killing somebody at random. Their victim of choice: a trusting old lady with whom they spent hours chatting about her family before stabbing her. In Norfolk, England, Lorraine Thorpe saw a father figure in a 41-year-old man in her group of alcoholics. He violently beat his girlfriend and eventually killed her, and Lorraine happily participated; when's Lorraine's father learned of the murder and became suspicious, they killed him too. Courtney Dunkin was adopted by her grandparents in Marlin, Texas and after her grandfather died, she got into the Goth movement, which did not mesh with her grandmother's Christianity. After Courtney's boyfriend broke up with her, Courtney plotted to kill him and then escape to Mexico with a friend, but the one obstacle to her plan was her grandmother, so she drugged her with a spiked milkshake and then shot her to death after kissing her goodnight. In October 1995, she was found guilty of capital murder and was sentenced to 40 years and will be eligible for parole in May 2034.
Episode 16
Fri, Dec 30, 201146 mins
Tina Powell and LaFonda Foster were drunk and high when they go on a killing spree, taking five friends hostage and killing them all in different ways. The night proved to be the deadliest in the history of Lexington, Kentucky. Melinda Harmon-Raisch was a housewife in Olathe, Kansas who fell for a student at a nearby college. She had her lover murder her husband so they could be together and they framed two black people. The two went on to marry other people and the secret was hidden for a decade. After losing her husband and two sons in the Melbourne, Victoria gang wars, crime family queen and professional thief Judy Moran tried to execute her brother-in-law twice and succeeded in doing so the third time.
Episode 17
Fri, Jan 6, 201243 mins
Jane Andrews was appointed the wardrobe specialist for Sarah, Duchess of York, but was fired. After losing her job, her only connection to the high life of England was her boyfriend. When he broke things off, she murdered him in his bed. She was sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled in June 2015. Shana Parkinson had a volatile temper that prompted her husband to leave her for another woman. She stabbed him and his new fiancée to death. However, she got caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold. Shana was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison. 17-year-old Texan Jennifer Bailey was in a relationship with Paul Henson, a pagan who introduced her to Satanism. When Jennifer's mother, Susan, forbids her to see Paul, they, as well as Jennifer's 13-year-old brother David and 14-year-old Merrilee White, murdered her and then fled to Canada, making it as far as South Dakota before they were caught. Both Jennifer and Paul were sentenced to 60 years, Merrilee was sentenced to 5 years probation, and David was sentenced to 26 years.
Episode 18
Fri, Jan 13, 201243 mins
Kirsten Costas reminds stabs to death classmate Bernadette Protti. Karen Severson and Laura Doyle were friends with Missy Avila since grade school, but as they grow older, Missy blossoms into a beautiful, charming young lady and the friendship dissolves. Karen and Laura take her into the woods, beat her up, cut her hair and drown her in the lake. Kelly Fuller decides to end the source of jealousy permanently by stabbing her ex's new girlfriend, Kelly Lang almost 50 times.
Episode 19
Fri, Jan 20, 201244 mins
When Patricia Robinson-Olsen had money problems, she resorted to soliciting her teenage son Christopher into shooting her second husband Neil to death, and then attempted to have him take the fall. Patricia was sentenced to life without parole and Christopher was sentenced to 30 years in prison. French immigrant Valerie Pape was a hair salon owner and a Scottsdale, Arizona socialite with an abusive husband, Ira Pomerantz. When Valerie had enough of her husband's abuse, she turned to murder, then dismembered his corpse. His torso was found in a dumpster behind a supermarket, but the rest of his remains have never been found. Valerie was sentenced to 16 years in prison and was released in 2016 and deported back to France. Jean Lee was a young Australian woman who became involved with two petty criminals and then turned to a life of crime. While attempting to rob an elderly man, he wound up dead. Jean confessed to her involvement hoping for a lighter sentence, but was executed by hanging on February 19, 1951.
Episode 20
Fri, Jan 27, 201246 mins
Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom was an honor student who had plans to study the arts at Cambridge University, but her parents did not support her ambitions. Her life subsequently went off the rails, and Elizabeth, who blamed her parents for all her troubles, got her boyfriend, Jens Söring to destroy both of them. Elizabeth and Jens were sentenced to life in prison, but were released on parole in November 2019. Heather D'Aoust was the 15-year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but had depression and bipolar disorder and was briefly institutionalized. After she was caught engaging in sexual activity with a female friend, she decided to kill her mother with a claw hammer. She pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 16 years to life. Nikki Reynolds grew up happy and wholesome, but that changed when she was dumped by her boyfriend. After Nikki spread false rumors that she was pregnant, her mother sought psychological help and constant arguing drove a wedge into the family. Planning to kill both of her parents, Nikki stabbed her mom fatally, but was too broken up to finish the job and turned herself in. She was sentenced to 21 years in prison and was released in 2019.